KINSHOFER GmbH

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KINSHOFER GmbH is one of the leading manufacturers of attachments for loader cranes and hydraulic excavators, as well as for rotators, Tiltrotators and rotary actuators. The headquarters of the global company is located in the Bavarian village Waakirchen/Marienstein, Germany. Originally named KINSHOFER Maschinenbau Miesbach, the company was founded by Alfred Kinshofer on August 4, 1971 in Miesbach, Bavaria, Germany. At the beginning the small business only produced bridge bearings, handrails and accessories for brick factories, such as tunnel kiln trucks or lifting and lowering devices for tile presses. Two years after the company‘s founding, the development of the first brick stack grapple began. Just one year later, the construction of a pallet fork and a clamshell bucket followed. As the capacities of the original factory had been exhausted, a new plant was built in eastern Miesbach in 1975. Only two years later, this building had grown too small again, so a second building was constructed with additional office buildings. In 1979, the company‘s first rotator with 360° endless rotation was developed. The company changed its name to KINSHOFER Greiftechnik GmbH in 1980, and the first sales activities in the United States and the UK took place. In 1984, the first foreign sales subsidiary of the company was founded in Stockport, Cheshire, England: KINSHOFER UK Ltd. Alfred Kinshofer sold his shares in 1987, but kept being a worthy consultant for the company. The same year,...